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noun - The sixteenth letter of the Appendix:Roman script, English alphabet, preceded by O and followed by Q.
abbreviation - Park
- Phone
- Pager
- Passenger
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adjective
- of or relating to all Greece or all the Greeks.
- of or relating to the Greek alphabet, Greek-letter fraternity, fraternities or sorority, sororities in American college and universities or to an assocation representing them.
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noun
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent, guardian, or a person acting in the capacity of a parent or guardian. Home of one's parents or guardians.
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noun
- (context, now mostly, North America) Punctuation mark ending a sentence or marking an abbreviation. <!-- What languages does this apply to? All? Or just most? Should it be
adjective
- appropriate, Appropriate for a given historical era.
- 2004, Mark Singer, Somewhere in America, Houghton Mifflin, page 70
- :As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.
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noun
- The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling
- A method of teaching elementary reading based on the phonetic interpretation of normal spelling
- Phonetics
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noun
- A location or place.
- (geometry) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence.
- At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A peninsula.
- (arithmetic) A decimal point (used when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- 10.5 ("ten point five"; = ten and a half)
- An opinion which adds (or supposedly adds) to the discussion.
- A unit of measure of success or failure in a game or competition; the unit of score, scoring.
- The one with the most points will win the game
- Germany awarded Greece the maximum 12 points in the Eurovision Song Contest.
- The color/colour on the extremities of an animal (typically darker or richer) than the rest of the coat).
- The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.
- (rail transport, Commonwealth) a device by which trains change tracks; switch
- (cricket) a fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- 2005: Willie Jones decided to become Kimani Jones, Black Panther, on the day his best friend, Otis Nicholson, stepped on a mine while walking during a sweep in the central highlands. " Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 189)
- (nautical) An angle equivalent to eleven and a quarter degrees, that is 1/32 of a circle. Most commonly used to indicate a relative bearing to an object or vessel, but can be used to describe a compass bearing.
verb
- (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- It's rude to at other people.
- (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction
- If he asks for food, him toward the refrigerator.
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noun (pl=practica or practicums)
- a college course designed to give a student supervised practical knowledge of a subject previously studied theoretically
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| praepostor |
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noun
- a prefect in some public schools
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| prepositor |
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noun
- A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor.
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noun
- a nursery school
adjective
- of, or relating to early childhood, especially to those years before attendance at primary school
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| probation |
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noun
- a period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance
- You'll be on for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
- a type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions
- He got two years for robbery.
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noun
- A teacher or faculty member at a college or university.
- A higher ranking for a teacher or faculty member at a college or university. Abbreviated Prof.
- (context, US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 415:
- :You could hear ... pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.
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noun
- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- An urban low-income housing building.
verb - (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
- (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface.
- (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
- (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
- The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.
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verb (promot, ing)
- (transitive) To raise someone to a more important, responsible or better paid job or rank
- He promoted his chief clerk to a position on the board.
- (transitive) To advocate or urge the adoption of something
- They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
- (transitive) To attempt to popularize or sell a product by advertising or publicity
- They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
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noun - (Scottish local government) The equivalent of mayor in some Scottish cities.
- (higher education) The senior academic administrator; also called the Vice-President of Academic Affairs.
- (religion) The most powerful position in a monastery below the abbot.
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| public school |
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noun
- A fee-charging private or independent school.
- (North America) A publicly administered school.
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| pupil |
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noun
- (context, law, obsolete) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.
- A student under the supervision of a teacher or professor.
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